Programmes & Schemes
Through research and innovation, the ANRF MAHA Leapfrog Demonstrators for Societal Innovation in India program aims to spur creative, integrative, and scalable solutions to India's most urgent societal concerns.
India's problems necessitate answers that go beyond incremental improvement; these solutions must be meaningful, reach the people who need them most, and provide a viable route to widespread adoption. This Call for Proposals (CFP) supports Leapfrog Demonstrations—integrated, research-driven demonstrators that validate transformative technical, economic, and/or social hypotheses at meaningful scale, in line with the national mandate to concentrate on India-centric problems and globally competitive solutions.In this context, ""leapfrog demonstrators"" are projects that show how state-of-the-art research speeds up the transfer of creative solutions from development phases to scalable, high-impact deployment.